What is it about?
Provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2015).
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Why is it important?
Explores the intelligence and counterintelligence activities of both the Allied and Axis powers in Iraq during the Second World War. Examines the individuals who undertook secret roles, including the author Dame Freya Stark, and the human element of intelligence work. Analyses the covert operations in Iraq in the wider context of regional wartime events.
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This account of covert operations in Iraq during the Second World War is based on archival documents, diaries, and memoirs, interspersed with descriptions of all kinds of clandestine activity, and contextualized with analysis showing the significance of what happened regionally in terms of the greater war. After outlining the circumstances of the rise and fall of the fascist Gaylani regime, Adrian O’Sullivan examines the activities of the Allied secret services (CICI, SOE, SIS, and OSS) in Iraq, and the Axis initiatives planned or mounted against them. O'Sullivan emphasizes the social nature of human intelligence work and introduces the reader to a number of interesting, talented personalities who performed secret roles in Iraq, including the distinguished author Dame Freya Stark.
Professor Adrian O'Sullivan
Bishop Grosseteste University
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This page is a summary of: The Baghdad Set, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15183-6.
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